The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. -Carl Jung

 

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.


-Carl Jung
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This quote is just one of 31 total Carl Jung quotes in our collection. Carl Jung is known for saying 'The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.' as well as some of the following quotes.

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

Carl Jung
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I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung
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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. -Carl Jung
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung
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